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Most people make their money selling books from Amazon, and selling items from merchants at places like CJ. And then there are banner programs where they pay you to put their banner up, like at fastclick, and Burst.

Not exactly what I meant...

"Most people make money selling books from Amazon"... if they do, it's news to me. According to most of what I have read, less than 2% of all affiliates make more than $100 per month!

That's why I ask... Ken Evoy says you should build a "theme-based content site" (NOT about Internet Marketing). Once you start getting siginificant traffic to that site, you make money buy selling products through affiliate programs.

But... does that really work?

Anybody making $500 or $1,000 or even $2,000 a month using this method?

THAT is what I want to know.

Nobody I know could make a "full time" living even if they were making $2,000 a month this way - that's only $24,000 a year.

So, again... is there money to be made with these "content based theme sites"? Or are the only people making money the "marketing gurus" - who make their money telling the rest of us how they did it.

I think the 2% number sounds right. I have signed up as a Amazon resller way back a while ago but no longer use it so i'm bringing the percentage down. I bet a ton of people are like me - or even some have signed up multiple times. But it is still not an easy thing to sell books! I normally just go directly to Amazon!

the 2% figure isnt just an amazon figure, the rate with cj is pretty similar as they have alot of people who sign up, use it once or twice and then forget about it, or just stop using it.

as for does a theme based site work? Yes! a site with no theme has very little chance of gaining large traffic, the more traffic you have and the more targeted your affiliate programs are then the more likely you are to have your visitors click n buy... meaning the more likely you are to turn clicks into $$

I make about $5-600 a month through affiliate programs with my literature site. Mainly the Duenow.com one, thats with roughly 600,000 monthly impressions.

I make around $150 a month via Amazon.com with my wilderness site, thats only about 120-150,000 monthly impressions. But on this site I make much more on advertising since it gets good demographics.

I've never heard of this Ken Evoy or whatever but its always been my opinion that for success (content wise anyways) you should make a niche content site on something you know about or have an interest in.

Other sites might be like http://www.datingreview.com/, which was build pretty much for affiliate programs. The site owner said she makes a virtual $35 cpm off it from all the affiliate programs.

It has some great advice, but you could follow everything to the tee and make -->$0.

I takes dedication and time for a site to build traffic, content etc. You need to experiment with your site, then analyze the stats that result from these changes. Once you find the right combinations...your set. <----I'm still looking for mine.

After reading through the over 800 pages of stuff that comes with it (a lot of filler material and self promotion IMHO) there are a few small nuggets of info. Not worth the money as far as I can tell. Seems like most people who are making money off his material are those who sell his material.

While there is a lot of data there, most of it can be gleaned from other sources like PB. A lot of it talks about site building(which is probably of little use to site promoters, since your site is probably already built), the traffic generating volume is about 200 pages and goes into great detail about what not to do. I learned a few things which re-inforced what I already knew, which I guess helped in a way.

If you have any specific questions, go ahead and ask and I'll try to answer them: I dont want to give any too many of Kens "secrets" in case he goes after me.....